Hogwarts on the Tip of the Tongue

"Sorry, it seems that it's not time for us to end?"

Luna glanced at Hermione who was pressing Elena under her, raised her eyebrows and said softly.

Noting that the light wall beside her broke, Hermione's original courage retreated as quickly as a tide. The girl released her hands that pressed Elena, sat up from the white hair ball in a panic, and began to fumble for the side of the bed. Books after reading.

However, before Hermione picked up the "Book of Potions" again, Elena's voice suddenly sounded behind her.

"No, it's time for you to end—"

Elena shook her head, frowned at them, her tone of voice sank slightly.

"Perhaps, we need to talk about it, eh? Why does this happen, I mean, using the magic of dualistic reversing architecture to create independent space in the room...one room with three areas, is it necessary? , Hannah?"

She looked over Luna Lovegood and looked at the Tiehan Han who was clearing the chessboard.

Compared to the other three little witches who can only lie, Hannah Abbot is obviously more suitable as a breakthrough.

"I—Um—Um, well, I don’t think this is right, but..."

Hannah said in a panic, and glanced at Hermione who was sitting next to Elena, "Well—Granger said, since we don’t want to listen to her suggestions and are noisy from time to time, why don’t we all be quiet? Way. In short, that's it."

"Well, this is indeed what I said, because you guys are totally fooling around—"

Hermione said calmly, before Elena turned her head, then continued Hannah's words.

"Obviously, Wizard Chess is actually a kind of chess that can move. If you have read a few related chess books, you will understand that your play is not even a beginner's-ooh-pain- "

"Okay, I see, let's just say a few words!"

Elena blankly retracted the death knife that struck Hermione's forehead, and glanced at Luna who was silent.

"So... Luna, you just follow the idiots' meaning and use phantom magic to create a quiet small space around the three of you to play chess, so that Hermione can stay alone on the bed without seeing and not worrying. Reading?"

"It's almost like this," Luna said, seeing Elena's gloomy face, and curled her lips. "At least that way, everyone won't quarrel. Besides, Elena, don't you sometimes be like this, for example, just now When doing homework—"

"So, you guys have reached a consensus? Huh, you guys—"

Elena's eyes slowly swept across the room, her eyes narrowed, and she sneered and hummed.

Thinking about it carefully, in addition to Hannah Abbot, Hermione Granger and Luna Lovegood originally had some autistic children's personalities. If it weren't for the "sickness" Danilova, maybe the younger There will be more compartments.

As for the little key from a scientific family, it is impossible to expect her to have any extrovert and lively character.

Elena resisted the urge to directly suppress her, holding her arms, and said softly.

"This logic is really great! Of course, no one can fight alone! It's wonderful!"

"Actually, I also know what Hermione said is very reasonable. After all, she always wins...but we want to play casually. It is good to know the rules and two or three opening moves. If there are too many things to recite, it is like being in class. Up."

Hannah looked very nervous and anxious. She knew very well that a certain volcano seemed to be erupting.

"In addition to playing chess, we also talked about other things, such as Quidditch—you know, tomorrow will be the Quidditch exam. Whether it's Danilova, Luna and their freshman team, or It's our Hufflepuff Academy team. But she is not interested in these topics. She is not good at flying... Well... That's why I think it's easy..."

Hannah Tiehan Aibo glanced at Hermione a little apologetically, and explained flusteredly and eloquently.

"Who said you can't participate in Quidditch if you don't fly well? I think Hermione is quite talented—"

Elena raised her eyebrows, stood up and walked over to the suitcase and turned over.

"Hey, what nonsense are you talking about, I don't—Elena, what is this?"

Hermione looked at the stack of magazines that Elena handed to her with some confusion. There were moving and non-moving magazines. Judging from the title and cover, it was obviously not only magazines in the magic world, but also mixed. Many nonmagical magazines.

"If you think chess is not a challenge for the time being, should you consider Quidditch—"

Elena pointed to the stack of magical and non-magical sports magazines seriously, and smiled.

"As a mature sport, don't you find that Hogwarts' various college teams are so close? In any team competition, in addition to the hard work of the players on the field, the head coach and tactical coach are equivalent Important puzzle."

"But I don't understand, and no matter what you think, Wood won't listen to me?"

Hermione hesitated, she understood Elena's meaning almost immediately.

But she doesn't have much confidence in the feasibility and actual effect of this matter. Quidditch games are different from any non-magical sports. In the books she has read, there is almost no description of tactical coaching. .

"No, of course it won't be the Gryffindor Academy team!"

Elena said without hesitation, and slurred at Luna and Danilova.

"Because I promised Professor McGonagall to join the Gryffindor Academy team, during the new recruitment of the Hogwarts freshman team tomorrow, I hope Hermione can replace me as the team coach and develop relevant Tactics and training plans."

"Wait, Lu—I mean, Hermione is going to be the head coach of the freshmen?!"

Hannah opened her eyes wide in surprise, looking at the white-haired dumpling sitting on the bed, her eyes full of confusion.

Except for Danilova, who didn’t know much about Quidditch because she had just taken a flight lesson, Luna Lovegood, standing next to Hannah, and even Hermione Granger’s face, At this time, they all had similar expressions of surprise.

"Yes." Elena said lightly.

"why me?"

Hermione Granger frowned, looked at the stack of magazines and books in his hand, and did not immediately refuse.

Obviously, judging from these carefully collected information, Elena's proposal just now is by no means a temporary intention, and naturally it will not be a response to the situation tonight... At least, this will not be the whole reason.

"On the ground and in the stands can you see the overall situation of the game. It's like playing chess-no one is more suitable than you."

Elena explained seriously, in fact, this is not the real reason.

She didn’t want a rift in the relationship between Hermione and the other girls. The information was originally prepared by Elena for her subsequent teaching, but she found that in addition to helping Gryffindor win, there are Something more meaningful.

"Then, I think you should at least—"

Before Hannah finished speaking, Luna interrupted her. She had been looking at them thoughtfully just now. At this moment, as if she had recovered from a sleepwalking, she suddenly spoke softly, abruptly.

"If the coach is Hermione, I don't think I need to question too much. She must want to win more than each of us. Although I don't know how much the head coach plays in other teams, in the freshmen team, she must Very important."

Those materials, those statements, there is no problem... it sounds like the kind of thoughtful plan Elena would do.

The only problem is...

Miss Lovegood's silver-gray eyes swept across Elena's face. Although there was no evidence, she knew in her heart that a certain fairy queen had lied in a small place-the information was not prepared for Hermione at all.

"Friend..." Luna's eyes flickered and she said quietly in her heart.

"Okay, it's all set!"

Elena clapped her hands happily and got up from the bed.

"Tomorrow I will also go to the Quidditch Stadium to watch. In addition to the assessment of the Gryffindor team, as the sponsor and founder of the freshman team, I also retain a veto on the selection of personnel. Tonight we Rehearse first, and then—"

"Hey, white hair dumplings!"

At this moment, Hannah suddenly frowned and looked at the roommate standing on the bed.

"You are stepping on the bed with dirty socks again, and you are still standing on the side where I slept! This time I won't let the ease pass you over. You, sloppy, sloppy guy, quickly get down to me!"

"Uh...I, this is not a special situation, and it doesn't smell."

Elena blinked, then quickly jumped off the bed, took off her socks and threw them aside.

"Or, let's go take a bath first? We wash and say, and then go to bed early today to prepare for tomorrow..."

She rubbed her hands enthusiastically and looked at the little witches in the room.

"Granger, come, help me pick up these little girls who didn't play with you before—"

"Elena, don't mess around, yeah..."

"Hermione, come and help, this white-haired ball is too strong—"

Hermione froze for a few seconds, pursed her lips, and quickly stepped forward to join the battle.

"Hey eh-Hermione, you actually attacked, how can you do this!"

"Who makes you so self-assertive, huh—"

Accompanied by the girls' clamor, the discordant atmosphere that had previously haunted the bedroom quickly dissipated.

...

The next morning, Hermione was the first to wake up in the dorm.

She lay on the bed for a while, watching the magic fireflies on the ceiling swirling and dancing in the ray of sunlight through the gaps of the four-poster bed curtains, and then remembering that today is Sunday, the examination day of the Quidditch teams.

The first week of the new semester is too long, and it seems that it will never reach the end.

There was a sleeping silence all around, and that ray of sunlight seemed to have just been created, and it seemed that the genius had just brightened.

Elena hugged Hannah like a koala. The girl’s long silver hair was buried in Tiehanhan’s chest. She was sleeping soundly at this moment. After coming out of the bathroom last night, these two witches with strange powers have been there. Competing, obviously tired.

On the other side, Luna and Danilova leaned on each other and slept beside the bed, almost falling off.

Hermione opened the curtains around the bed and began to get up and put on clothes.

Everyone in the bedroom seemed to sleep deeply. Except for a few unexplained dreams from Hannah, the only sound was the slow and even breathing of the four sleeping little witches. It should have been better without accident. It took a while to wake up.

She opened her school bag carefully and took out the stack of magazines that Elena gave her.

On the other side of the room, there are a few fluffy armchairs by the long extinguished fire, and next to them are two standing desks joined together. There is a constant soft magic lamp on the side of the desk, just to be able to see clearly Things are not too bright.

It's an enviable room. I don't know if the professors' bedrooms are so comfortable. It seems that it has never been mentioned in the book.

Thinking like this, Hermione opened the top "World Football-Semi-Annual", and looked at it carefully with soft lighting, and then her gaze stopped on the messy notes in the blank space of the title page.

"English Premier League, Lancaster Gate, profit, sports..."

She was so familiar with the small handwriting that looked like an animal claw, and it was one of Elena's signs.

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Judging from the curled footer on the edge of the magazine, this book has obviously been turned several times before. If you turn a few pages back, you can see similar comments. Some are strange words that you can’t understand, some It is a sentence that reviews certain tactics.

The most important thing is that there are many Quidditch vocabulary such as seeker and chaser.

Even if Hermione does not have a deep understanding of Quidditch and English football, she can see the relevance of those comments.

Hermione only now understands what Elena said before going to bed last night. As long as she studies this pile of information carefully, she will be able to easily be the head coach of the freshman team. "Homework" copied her! If she didn't guess wrong, these should have been Elena's own tactical notes, right?

She sat motionless for a while, staring at the notes on the edge of the book.

In the blank spaces on the last few pages of this book, detailed analysis reports on the Quidditch teams of the four Hogwarts colleges are written, and there are even the best of the freshman team members last year. Location speculation.

"...Harry has a high probability of becoming a seeker, and Ron is a goalkeeper substitute and chaser. If against the Gryffindor team in the new season, double-targeting Harry will enable the Gryffindor Academy system Lost most of the combat power."

"... Gore and Crabbe have not yet entered the rapid development period. Endurance and physical strength will be breakthrough points. UU reading www.uukanshu.com, but be careful as Draco is a Slytherin seeker, he is very suitable for finding opportunity……"

"...Hannah is unstable with the ball and is easily disturbed during the charging phase..."

"...The overall mentality of Ravenclaw College is fragile, and pressure from outside the court can directly defeat..."

With the exception of Luna Lovegood, who has not played before, Elena in this booklet almost predicted the possible lineups of each college this year, as well as their respective tactical flaws and possible winning tactical cores.

Although she has no talent for flying, Hermione has read many books about Quidditch before.

Glancing briefly at those tactics, she quickly combined the Hogwarts Quidditch Stadium in her mind, and the broomstick-riding villains who looked like chess pieces—if you say, respond in a targeted manner. , Even if it is a freshman team of brand-new people, it does not seem to have no chance of winning when it comes to various colleges.

"Using the sky as a chessboard and every player as a pawn... It seems very interesting..."

Hermione nodded thoughtfully, and gently closed the fast-read "World Football Semi-Annual" in her hand. There was a faint movement of turning over on the bed behind her. Not surprisingly, those last night The girls are going crazy too.

Just now, she suddenly wanted to understand another thing.

The words "investment", "alliance", and "sponsorship" written at the forefront and some blank spaces may represent another chess game in progress, a huge plan that is held by the Gringotts Fairy Queen herself. .

Maybe, after she finishes the chess game in this school, she will be qualified to stand beside Elena and see the bigger world, right?

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